Berrien County

• 3,740 children less than 18 years currently have asthma. [1]
  
  
• 6212 adults 18 years and older currently have asthma. [2]
  
  
• There are about 192 hospitalizations each year in Berrien County. The rate of asthma hospitalization is 11.9 hospital stays per 10,000 people. [3]  This rate is significantly lower than the rate for the State of Michigan (16.0 per 10,000).
  
  
• There are about 4 deaths due to asthma in Berrien County each year. [4]
  
  
• For Berrien County, the total cost of asthma is $6,749,000 per year, with indirect costs of $2,909,000 and direct costs of $3,840,000. [5]

*Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US population. Michigan population estimates for 2003 are used in calculations.

For more information about asthma in your county, please review "Epidemiology of Asthma In the Southwest Michigan Counties of Berrien, Cass, and VanBuren, 2006."

If you have a specific data request, please contact Betsy Wasilevich, asthma epidemiologist, at wasileviche@michigan.gov.

Sources:

1.  Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2002.

2.  Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2005, Preliminary.

3.  Michigan Inpatient Database, 2002-2004.

4.  Michigan Resident Death File, 1999-2004.

5.  Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Last Updated 05/15/2007